# Evidence Charter

## Mission
Provide evidence indexing, validation, and retention services with deterministic outputs.

## Responsibilities
- Keep evidence serialization and digests deterministic.
- Validate evidence integrity and budget enforcement.
- Track task status in `TASKS.md`.

## Required Reading
- `docs/modules/platform/architecture-overview.md`

## Working Agreement
- 1. Update task status in the sprint file and local `TASKS.md`.
- 2. Prefer deterministic ordering and time sources for evidence indexes.
- 3. Add tests for validation, retention, and budget enforcement paths.